Sponsored by the School of History, The Center for Ecological History and the Center for Medical History, Renmin University of China
Conveners: Shen Hou and Hao Chen (Renmin University of China)
Lecture 1
Mar. 17 (Wednesday)
Christof Mauch (The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society; Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München), “The Plague Comes to America: Racism, Science and Politics in US History”
Lecture 2
April. 3 (Saturday)
Andy Horowitz (Tulane University), “New Orleans’s History, America’s Future: Katrina, Covid, and the Climate Crisis”
Lecture 3
April 14 (Wednesday)
Ari Larrisa Heinrich (Australia National University), “How China Became the ’Sleeping Lion’: Frankenstein’s Diplomacy”
Lecture 4
April 27 (Tuesday)
Mary Augusta Brazelton (University of Cambridge), “Mass Immunization and Disease Control in Modern China: From Public to Global Health, 1937-78”
Lecture 5
May 8 (Saturday)
Jennifer Derr (University of California, Santa Cruz), “The Alternate Histories and Analytical Possibilities of the Environmental Body: The View from 20th-Century Egypt”
Lecture 6
May 29 (Saturday)
Conevery Valencius (Boston College), “Health and Environment in the Early United States”
Lecture 7
June 8 (Tuesday)
Frédéric Keck (CNRS Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale), “Pandemic Preparedness: From Avian Influenza to SARS-Cov”
Lecture 8
June 24 (Thursday)
Marco Armiero (Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm), “Wasteocene. Stories of Contamination and Commoning”